1st Edition

European Peace Movements and the Future of the Western Alliance

Edited By Walter Laqueur Copyright 1985
450 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

This extraordinary compendium concerns the future of the Western alliance and the development of the peace movements in Europe and in the United States. The peace movement is an old phenomenon given new life by NATO decisions concerning nuclear deployment in Europe and the Soviet responses along the same lines. After a long postwar marriage, Europeans and Americans alike are reexamining the... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: The Peace Movements, European Neutralism, and The Future of The Atlantic Alliance; 3: Uncertain Future-Nato After 35 Years; 4: A Plan to Reshape Nato; 5: The Western Misalliance; 6: Pacifism And East-West Relations; 7: The Nordic Peace Movements; 8: The Precarious Peace in Europe: The West In Search of a Political Strategy; 9: Pacifism in the Netherlands; 10: Britain’s Nuclear Disarmers; 11: All Quiet on the French Front?; 12: The Churches and The Peace Movement: The British Experience; 13: War And Peace and The German Church; 14: The Origins and Aims of The German Peace Movement; 15: The Arguments of the German Peace Movement; 16: Neutralism And The Moral Order In West Germany; 17: Apocalypse Now: The American Peace Movement In The 1980s

Biography

Walter Laqueur